The Faded Ruin

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The Faded Ruin

1984. October 14. The ink is gone from my left forearm. I woke up and the blue script that had lived there since I was six was just a faint, grey smear, like a bruise fading in the sun. My father looked at my arm, then at my face, and he did not speak. He just poured the coffee. Black. No sugar. He is a scribe, one of the last who still writes by hand for the City Council, though most of what...

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